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A brand new a6000 is 60-70% of its original price today. Like all Sonys, if I want an a6300 I will pay 70% just a few weeks after release.
Either way, I would get the D750 or a Blackmagic.
The a6300 is a camera I would never buy without testing. Sony has lost my trust completly when it comes to shiny spec sheets.
Might be a killer camera but I wont risk it untill I know.

Think this era in mass media will be known as the BS "listicle" trash era?
I do wonder if culture will grow out of the nonsense and the tone of this junk will sound as ridiculous in a generation or two as dialog from 1930's movies.  
Then again, as conditioned consumers, we're trained to believe that the choices we make in purchases somehow represent our success in life.  What better way to justify one's self worth than to find like minded opinion as a way to say "See, I knew I was right!  I'm smarter than everyone else!"?  Listicles give people that affirmation.  Perhaps they'll never go away.  Tabloids have been selling for centuries after all.
Criticism of this guy is somewhat ironic to me since there's over a dozen pages of comments in the a6300 thread... Oh well, that's my stream of consciousness pop psycology anyway.

Think this era in mass media will be known as the BS "listicle" trash era?
I do wonder if culture will grow out of the nonsense and the tone of this junk will sound as ridiculous in a generation or two as dialog from 1930's movies.  
Then again, as conditioned consumers, we're trained to believe that the choices we make in purchases somehow represent our success in life.  What better way to justify one's self worth than to find like minded opinion as a way to say "See, I knew I was right!  I'm smarter than everyone else!"?  Listicles give people that affirmation.  Perhaps they'll never go away.  Tabloids have been selling for centuries after all.
Criticism of this guy is somewhat ironic to me since there's over a dozen pages of comments in the a6300 thread... Oh well, that's my stream of consciousness pop psycology anyway.

Think this era in mass media will be known as the BS "listicle" trash era?
I do wonder if culture will grow out of the nonsense and the tone of this junk will sound as ridiculous in a generation or two as dialog from 1930's movies.  
Then again, as conditioned consumers, we're trained to believe that the choices we make in purchases somehow represent our success in life.  What better way to justify one's self worth than to find like minded opinion as a way to say "See, I knew I was right!  I'm smarter than everyone else!"?  Listicles give people that affirmation.  Perhaps they'll never go away.  Tabloids have been selling for centuries after all.
Criticism of this guy is somewhat ironic to me since there's over a dozen pages of comments in the a6300 thread... Oh well, that's my stream of consciousness pop psycology anyway.

Anyone that's complaining about what they can get in a camera for 1K these days is ridiculous.  You. Are. Not. Limited.  The technology that's at your fingertips is more than enough to do whatever you could imagine.  Go use it.  

Anyone that's complaining about what they can get in a camera for 1K these days is ridiculous.  You. Are. Not. Limited.  The technology that's at your fingertips is more than enough to do whatever you could imagine.  Go use it.  

Anyone that's complaining about what they can get in a camera for 1K these days is ridiculous.  You. Are. Not. Limited.  The technology that's at your fingertips is more than enough to do whatever you could imagine.  Go use it.  

Anyone that's complaining about what they can get in a camera for 1K these days is ridiculous.  You. Are. Not. Limited.  The technology that's at your fingertips is more than enough to do whatever you could imagine.  Go use it.  

A versatile tool is a versatile tool.  So say I, an amateur poser.

A versatile tool is a versatile tool.  So say I, an amateur poser.

It's good stuff so it's fun to talk about it.
Btw, I stumbled across "Tangents" last night just randomly browsing Vimeo.
Kept thinking, "man, this has some fun cool shots in it, what great energy." And then your name popped up in the credits.  Figures!

Oh yeah.  I overuse it to a fault.  
Anyway, one of the ways to get better encoding results when putting a vid on you tube, I hear, is to uprez it to 4K.  Not sure how this would affect film grain, but it's worth a shot.
You're SOL with vimeo.

Be commended that most of the comments about the film are about the content not the craft; and consider the typical tech-centric sentiments about things on this website.  I think that's a clue as to your film's effectiveness.
I'm assuming you're probably not making the movie to appease everyone, but rather to guide them into a bit of a perspective shift.
If I've noticed anything from your work it's that you have a accomplished knack of creating authentic tone.  This is not easy to do.  We may not like or agree with the characters of your movies, but we sense that they are grounded in a reality that is true for your stories.
I just watched a movie last night that couldn't find that sort of center for the characters and it was incredibly frustrating.

If there's a better metaphor for the plodding of American politics, I'm not sure I could think of one at the moment.

If there's a better metaphor for the plodding of American politics, I'm not sure I could think of one at the moment.

If there's a better metaphor for the plodding of American politics, I'm not sure I could think of one at the moment.

So, I guess I'll be the voice of dissension, the first version was better. I liked the grade and the subtitles way better. The distraction of the subtitles worked with her character's thoughts being all over the place. 

Be that as it may, I contend that a rule of 3 is not something requiring implementation in one's work to make that art effective or worthwhile.  Feel free to disagree.
As for psychology, I do believe that potential voters of someone like Bernie Sanders are more likely to have a mindset apart from a voter that would rather hear jingoism and be comforted by that approach.  
And as this is a short film to appeal to a certain worldview/voter right now (as opposed to a general election) I can see how it might be effective in it's defined space.

If not, what does?
Unfortunately, everyone is uninformed to an extent.  Heck, former Prez GDub and his cabinet admitted they were chronically uninformed and offered it up as an excuse for a lot of their foreign policy decisions. (to which I say there's a difference between willful ignorance and being uninformed, but, well, you know, semantics)

Well, from my POV, I'd give that sentiment a full on raspberry.  If a US citizen voter isn't frustrated with the candidates and is perfectly comfortable with any particular person, I'd say that kind of outlook is more dangerous than being skeptical and worrisome.  Especially in 2016.
If one finds themselves trusting a politician, any politician, I'd say they've gone off the intellectual deep end.
You think it would be any less disturbing if we just watched a similar styled movie called "Trumphead"?  Oh my good lord, that would be something.
Also, Ed, what would you tweak about the color?  Nothing seems off to me.

Cool! 
It's fun and encouraging to see how (seemingly) simple footage can be used for shaping creative narratives.  I do wonder if a lot of filmmakers get that part backwards and demand assertively creative visuals before the storytelling?  Not that you don't need both, but you get the idea.
Also, clever use of irony there at the end is an impressive bit of storytelling craft.
Anyway, POV from an aspiring documentarian, so I'm biased.  I am biased for a heavy handed use of film grain too.  What is it about me that enjoys that?
BTW, one of the things about ideological rhetoric, and is present here, is how things are framed as of the USA is a broken state that needs to be fixed.  You see this in phrases that typically has the word "again" in it.  Make America great again!  Make things good again!  As if the way American culture exists is currently in some sort of disaster.  I don't see it that way.  We're constantly and absolutely flawed and screwed up, yes.  Things are always unfair in many regards and needed remedy, yes, but you can't have a broad swatches of cultures coexisting without that sort of reality.
To assume otherwise is a fundamental misunderstanding of the philosophical DNA of this nation.  
Hey y'all, our system is pretty much broken by design.  The three branches of government are built to NOT cooperate wholly.  You don't fix it.  You continuously shape it through compromise, but fixing it is impossible.
I realize the "again" phrase in this instance is coming from the perspective of a fictional character in a movie, but nevertheless it triggered my thinking, so you should be congratulated.  Good storytelling should accomplish that.

Opinions are like...

I had a bout with stress dealing last year with a bad client and it put things into perspective for me.
Heart problems arose.  Not fun.
Personally, I'm not sure, for me, that the idea of of a suffering "artist" (or, in my case, "craftsman") is worth it.  However, I do get the sentiment of why suffering for art is noble.  An artist desires to be emotionally invested under high stakes for their creations to have a particular energy behind it.  Finding philosophical truths and paradoxes can be an emotional difficulty; much less figuring how to bring them into an existence that fits one's oeuvre.
But, not all storytelling needs to come from that sort of place.
Also, I'm not into the idea of being a work-a-holic.  The notion of being prolific because you have to express yourself is okay.  But the notion of being prolific because you want more jobs and more money is somehow morally wrong to me.  I don't buy into that at all, be that at a cultural level or at an artistic level.
I guess I could understand busting my ass and sprinting hard to work on something like "Ida", for instance, but I wouldn't feel good about myself if I did something like that to help create the next Transformers movie.
And that's not saying that "Ida" is a great piece of art.  But it does have a certain quality in it's craft that gives it more value --to me.
As it is, I float in my little pond content on being the fish I am --and aspire to be.  As long as I progress on my terms, I'm cool with it.  Other creative's muses may push them harder and down a more tortuous path, but we're all different and tell the stories we're gonna tell.
I wouldn't want to be around for those first 5 days.
How about the self-important males that do the same?  Do they get a pass on being idiots or something?

Yeah, well, you know, it's like, just our opinions, man.
 

Yeah, well, you know, it's like, just our opinions, man.